Michael Lee
Content by Michael Lee
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First-time author Karl Marlantes tackles some tough subjects—racism among the troops, for one—in his Vietnam novel, Matterhorn.What makes this novel so irresistible is Marlantes&
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Life is not easy for Oscar Wao. He's a grossly overweight nerd with a sci-fi writing jones and the social skills of a three-toed sloth.
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Author Steven Pressfield has forged a considerable reputation as a historical novelist, focusing on the more ancient civilizations.
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A good essay collection reveals something new about its subjects, while a great collection also reveals something about its author.
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The nightmare and shame of humanity is that there is always a war going on somewhere on the planet. And yet, for writers such as John le Carré, this sad fact is great fodder for stories.
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If there are any lingering doubts that Alan Furst is our premiere writer of historical spy fiction, his 10th novel, The Spies of Warsaw, will put them to rest.
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Some writers' grasps fall far short of their reach. Not Brian Hall's.
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Books about exploration often inspire our armchair fascination no matter what the destination, but the real stories emerge in the character of the intrepid explorers.
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At its core, Walking to Gatlinburg is a story about 17-year-old Morgan Kinneson, who leaves his home in Vermont in 1864, a sad and terrible time in America, and heads south to find his missi
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<b>Somebody's watching me</b> You get the uneasy feeling at the beginning of Jonathan Raban's new novel, <b>Surveillance</b>, that you've been here before.
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There's an old literary bromide that says you can't pile enough problems onto your protagonist the tougher things are, the better.
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